AAG 2017 Featured Theme

Geographies of Bread and Water in the 21st Century

AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, April 5-9, 2017

Burgeoning global population along with increasing appetite for high-protein or resource demanding food choices may double demands on world agriculture by 2050. At the same time groundwater depletion and climate change are negatively impacting the availability of sufficient water to meet agricultural and domestic freshwater demands in many regions. Compounding these challenges are socioeconomic forces, including armed conflicts and state collapse that negatively affect agricultural productivity, food transference and water resources. The challenges to food and water security over the 21st century represent an increasing and potentially existential threat to global society. These issues are fundamentally geographical in nature and should form a central research and educational focus of geography.

The AAG Opening Presidential Plenary: Bread and Water in the 21st Century will kick off this featured theme. Speakers in this special plenary will be AAG President Glen M. MacDonald (UCLA), Ruth DeFries (Columbia University) and Peter Gleick (Pacific Institute). Discussants will be Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern (Syracuse University) and William G. Moseley (Macalaster College).

Call for Papers
Papers and sessions in the 2017 AAG Annual Meeting Geographies of Bread and Water in the 21st Century Theme will address the complex demands and challenges of food and water provision over the 21st century and the roles of physical, social, cultural and technological geographical research, education and public communication in formulating and implementing monitoring, adaptation and mitigation strategies.

For more information, please visit http://www.aag.org/breadandwater, or contact members of the theme’s organizing committee at BreadAndWater [at] aag [dot] org.

Session Schedule

Wednesday, April 5
8:00 am - 9:40 am

1121. Food, water, and change over time Room: Room 301, Hynes, Third Level (Paper Session)ORGANIZER(S): Bread and Water CHAIR(S): Renato De Oliveira Marques
8:00 Lennart Olsson, Professor*, Lund University; Anne Jerneck, Professor, Lund University, The return of food riots?.
8:20 Ike Sari Astuti*, University of Georgia; Deepak R Mishra, Dr, University of Georgia; Bagus Setiabudi Wiwoho, State University of Malang; Abdullah Arif Kurnia, State University of Malang, A 20-Year Land Use Change, Drivers and Implications on Watershed Functions and Water Resources; A Case Study on Upper Brantas - Konto Watersheds, East Java, Indonesia.
8:40 Marcela Cely Santos*, University of California - Santa Cruz, Cross-Pollinating Agriculture, Ecosystems and Food: A Political Ecology of Farmers/Bee Relationships in Anolaima, Colombia.
9:00 Su Guandong*, Hiroshima University, Spatial Mapping and Analysis of Farmland Abandonment and Its Determinants at National and Regional Levels in Japan.
9:20 Renato De Oliveira Marques*, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais; Sandro Laudares, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais; Matheus Pereira Libório, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais; Marianna Petrovna Ekel, Support Fund for Research of Minas Gerais, Spatial Analysis of Protected Areas in the Biomes and Regions of Brazil from 1930 to 2016.

3:20 pm - 5:00 pm

3528. Perceptions of food Room: Room 308, Hynes, Third Level (Paper Session)ORGANIZER(S): Bread and Water CHAIR(S): Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin, National Chengchi University
3:20 Gretchen Lang, MA*, University of Colorado Boulder, Possessing Pleasure: embodied difference in the sensory experience of food..
3:40 Raphaël Stephens*, Is The Food Assembly an Alternative Food Network and if so, what sociotechnical food regime transition does it embody ? A story of food and uberisation in the Paris metropolitan region through the lens of the Multi Level Perspective..
4:00 Karin Schanes*, WU- Vienna University of Economics and Business, FOOD WASTE FIGHTERS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF FOOD SHARING PRACTITIONERS IN AUSTRIA..
4:20 Kristin Dypedokk*, University of Oslo, Sustainable Diets: Bridging policy for food systems, health and the environment?.
4:40 Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin, Ph.D.*, National Chengchi University, The Discourses of Eat Low Carbon Food Campaigns in Japan and Taiwan.

10:00 am - 11:40 am

4225. Bread and water in the Middle East and Africa Room: Room 305, Hynes, Third Level (Paper Session)ORGANIZER(S): Bread and Water CHAIR(S): Theophile Niyonzima
10:00 Sarah Smiley*, Kent State University, Water Access in Rural Malawi.
10:20 Rami Zurayk*, American University of Beirut, The Empty Breadbasket: Geographies of Food and War in the Contemporary Arab Levant.
10:40 Steven Jeffrey Gilbert*, Penn State University, Drought and Climate Change in Jordan.
11:00 Theophile Niyonzima, PhD*, University of Rwanda, Impact of Water Availability on Livestock Revenue in Rwanda.

4528. Economies of agriculture and water Room: Room 308, Hynes, Third Level (Paper Session)ORGANIZER(S): Bread and Water CHAIR(S): Dolly Daftary, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development
3:20 Therese Rudebeck*, University of Cambridge, Corporate Water Stewardship: Shared risk, shared value and the financialization of global water governance.
3:40 M.Y. Han, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS; W.D. Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Tele-connection of Globalized Economy: Water Use in Global Supply Chain.
4:00 Rebecca Ellis, PhD student*, University of Western Ontario, Disrupt the Global, Transform the Local: Place-based food movements in the Capitalocene.
4:20 Michael B. Wironen, PhD Candidate*, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the Univeristy of Vermont, The Long Shadow of Agricultural Commodity Production: A Case Study from Vermont, USA.
4:40 Dolly Daftary*, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, UMass Boston, Market expansion at the geopolitical margins: The politics of labor, value and affect in dryland Gujarat, India.